Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A Universal Serial Bus cable comprising: a first differential pair to transmit bus signals; and a second differential pair to transmit bus signals in a same direction as the bus signals transmitted by the first differential pair, wherein the first differential pair is enabled to point in a same direction as the second differential pair, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
2. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 1 , wherein the first differential pair couples a first transmit block with a first receive block and wherein the second differential pair couples a second transmit block with a second receive block.
3. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 1 , further comprising a lesser bandwidth communication path available in a direction opposite the same direction.
4. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 3 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is bi-directional.
5. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 3 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is selectively bi-directional.
6. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 3 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is to execute link management functions while also providing a data path in a direction opposite to the same direction of the double bandwidth path.
7. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 3 , wherein the link management functions include one or more of flow control protocol, power management protocol, runtime reversal of the double bandwidth direction, and/or protocol handshake.
8. The Universal Serial Bus cable of claim 3 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is a USB 2.0 communication path.
9. A system comprising: a first Universal Serial Bus device; a second Universal Serial Bus device; and a Universal Serial Bus cable to couple the first Universal Serial Bus device and the second Universal Serial Bus device, the Universal Serial Bus cable including: a first differential pair to transmit bus signals; and a second differential pair to transmit bus signals in a same direction as the bus signals transmitted by the first differential pair, wherein the first differential pair is enabled to point in a same direction as the second differential pair, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the Universal Serial Bus Cable is a USB 3.0 cable, and the bandwidth of the USB 3.0 cable in the same direction is at least 10 gigabits per second.
11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the first differential pair couples a first transmit block with a first receive block and wherein the second differential pair couples a second transmit block with a second receive block.
12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the first Universal Serial Bus device is one or more of a Universal Serial Bus host device, a Universal Serial Bus hub device, and/or a Universal Serial Bus client device.
13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the second Universal Serial Bus device is one or more of a Universal Serial Bus host device, a Universal Serial Bus hub device, and/or a Universal Serial Bus client device.
14. The system of claim 9 , the Universal Serial Bus cable further comprising a lesser bandwidth communication path in a direction opposite the same direction.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is to execute link management functions while also providing a data path in a direction opposite to the same direction of the double bandwidth path.
16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the link management functions include one or more of flow control protocol, power management protocol, runtime reversal of the double bandwidth direction, and/or protocol handshake.
17. The system of claim 14 , wherein the lesser bandwidth communication path is a USB 2.0 communication path.
18. A method comprising: enabling a first differential pair of a Universal Serial Bus cable to point in a same direction as a second differential pair of a Universal Serial Bus cable in order to transmit bus signals on the first differential pair and the second differential pair in the same direction, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the bandwidth of the USB 3.0 cable in the same direction is provided by two channels of at least 5 Gigabits per second.
20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus Cable in the same direction is at least 10 Gigabits per second.
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June 24, 2014
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